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We discussed all of the following as factors that govern our use of natural resources EXCEPT: (Which is NOT a factor that we called attention to?)

HOW might land use planning help reduce losses from natural hazards? Land use planning can be used to:

We suggested in class that all of the following are part of human-environment interaction EXCEPT:

Engineered structures sound like a good idea and they can reduce damage from natural hazard events but they too are not perfect. Which of the following explains one of the most serious problems with relying upon structures to prevent natural hazard losses? Structures

According to Dennis Mileti, there is NO such thing as a purely natural hazard because he claims that:

Most of the people who live in shanty-towns, slums, or favelas in the world’s less developed big cities work in:

Which of the following helps explain why many less developed countries faced extreme difficulty in repaying loans to the World Bank (WB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) over the past few decades?

Yes, subsistence agriculture is almost always less productive than commercial farming. Yet commercial farms in less developed countries do not provide the benefits we might assume. All of the following are examples of problems associated with commercial farming in less developed countries EXCEPT:

The continuation of colonial relationships even after political independence is referred to as ______:

Which of the following is a critical insight of world systems theory regarding development in different parts of the world? According to class discussion, Emmanuel Wallerstein: